Maldives Elections: Anti-India Mohammad Muizzu won Maldives elections
Maldives Elections: The last hope of improving relations between Maldives and India seems to be fading. In fact, only anti-India candidate Mohammad Muizzu has won in Maldives elections. His party People's National Congress (PNC) has again secured majority in the Parliament of Maldives. According to local media reports in Maldives, Muizzu's party has won 60 seats in the parliamentary elections held on Sunday. More than 200,000 people voted in this parliamentary election, with 326 candidates vying for 93 seats in the next parliamentary assembly, including 6 new seats.
These candidates were candidates in the election
Candidates from the ruling party of Maldives contested the elections on 90 seats. The candidates contesting the elections also included 89 candidates from the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP). 39 candidates from Democrat, 10 candidates from Jamhoori Party (JP), 4 candidates from Maldives Development Alliance (MDA), 4 from Adalath Party (AP), 2 from Maldives National Party (MNP), and 130 independent candidates participated in this election. Were.
Initial trend in favor of Muizzu
Initial trends of Maldives election results show current President Mohammed Muizzu's PNC winning more than 60 seats, almost two-thirds of the total seats. It does not include independent candidates contesting elections with party support and MNP and MDA candidates. MNP and MDA are the two parties allied with the ruling coalition.
Muijju had won last year also, criticized India
Let us tell you that in the elections held in the year 2019, the then ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) had won the supermajority with 64 seats. Whereas the then opposition PPM-PNC alliance had won only 8 seats. It is noteworthy that relations between India and Maldives had become tense after Maldivian President Mohammed Muizzu took charge. He criticized India during and after the presidential elections and his government also formally requested India to withdraw its forces from Male.
After this, in March, President Muizzu had appealed to India to provide relief in loan. Then local media reported that India will remain Maldives' closest ally. It was also claimed that he has not taken any action nor given any statement which could create tension in the relations between the two countries.
India-Maldives dispute
This year a major controversy arose (India-Maldives Conflict) when some leaders of Maldives made derogatory comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and mocked his visit to Lakshadweep. Due to this, diplomatic relations between the two countries deteriorated.
India raised this matter strongly with Maldives and top opposition leaders of Maldives also criticized the Muizzoo administration over this dispute. On the other hand, Maldives had even made objectionable remarks against India, which India could not tolerate at all. Regarding this, the campaign of Boycott Maldives (#boycottmaldives) was launched by the common people and even big celebrities. Taking a big form, it brought tourism in Maldives to a standstill.